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Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three … Competition unless a critical number of female winners is reached. We find that Quotas and Preferential Treatment encourage women … winners is not worse. The level of cooperation in a post-competition teamwork task is even higher with successful policy …
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inefficiencies, such as under- and overtreatment or market break-down. We study in a large experiment with 936 participants the … has little influence, as predicted. Seller competition drives down prices and yields maximal trade, but does not lead to …
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Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as important means to reduce free riding and to promote … of income distribution in team cooperation. In a repeated public good experiment, conditions vary among different … combinations of homogenous or heterogeneous endowment, strong or weak identity, and absence or presence of peer punishment. We find …
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This paper experimentally investigates the role of beliefs, trust, and risk in shaping cooperative behavior. By applying incentivized elicitation methods to measure these concepts, we find that beliefs about others’ behavior and trust are positively associated with cooperation in a public...
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predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger self-control and higher levels …
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In contrast to previous studies on cross-group comparisons of conditional cooperation, this study keeps cross- and within-country dimensions constant. The results reveal significantly different cooperation behavior between social groups in the same location.<p>
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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Studies have shown that there are differences in cooperative behavior across countries. Furthermore, differences in the use and the reaction on the introduction of a norm enforcement mechansism have been documented in cross-cultural studies, recently. We present data which prove that stark...
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obtained in a laboratory experiment affects male and female behavior differently.<p> …
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We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in oneshot normal-form games …
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